Frm Quantitative Analyst

6 months ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

CIB Financial Resource Management (FRM) business unit is looking for a quantitative analyst, who will support financial resource (capital, funding and liquidity) management.

The main focus is to:

- Support optimal and efficient allocation and usage of scarce financial resources across the Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) which includes South Africa and other presence countries.
- Support the facilitation of the optimisation of value-aligned performance measures (risk adjusted return measures e.g. Return on Risk Weighted Assets, Return on Economic Capital) based on the plans for the clusters.
- Support advisory services e.g. business change implications to CIB - Business, Risk and Finance.

Analyse the impact of upcoming regulation that has the potential to impact the availability of financial resources within CIB.

**Job Description**:
Key accountabilities
- Financial Resource Management
- Obtain and monitor the risk-adjusted performance metrics and financial resource usage for each relevant business unit area within CIB
- Build out dashboards to ensure that the preparation of Management Information (MI) relating to financial constraints are automated to improve efficiencies
- Run analytics using available tools such as, but not limited to, Python and/or PowerBI to enhance reporting and preparation of MI
- Source data and perform analysis to support business on the efficiency of the funding profile.
- Support financial resource optimisation initiatives and provide support for capital allocation requests in plans according to these initiatives.
- Provide decision support that is business enabling and solution orientated.
- Assist in providing challenge to Front Office on the opportunities and threats to maximise the returns on financial resources.
- Provide input into various cluster level committee meetings, including the sourcing and preparation of Management Information for effective decision making.
- Assist in ensuring the above objective is achieved within the approved regulatory and management constraints, with a particular focus on capital, funding and leverage.
- Provide support toward ensuring adherence to financial resource policies and limits.
- Provide support on the appropriate action plans to close gaps identified as part of the existing finance and strategic planning process.
- Research
- Conduct general research into the financial sector by sourcing information from various sources, including regulators, analyst research and public disclosures, in order to help CIB understand the factors that influence banking performance and the utilisation of financial resources.
- Continuously evaluate the external environment, including upcoming regulatory changes (prudential, conduct and market infrastructure), and provide support to assist in the assessment of impact on the area’s activities and availability of financial resources.
- Produce research with and/or without supervision.
- Provide support toward regulatory change impact and strategy on financial resource management.

Stakeholder management
- Establish and manage relationships with both internal and external sources of information in order to deliver on objectives.
- Build and maintain relationships with internal role-players e.g. Risk, Front Office, Finance and Treasury.

Knowledge and skills
- Ability to build sound relationships with stakeholders and appropriately respond to their needs.
- Prioritise the output of the team/self, ensuring delivery within deadlines.
- Ability to work well under pressure.
- Ability to absorb large volumes of information and identify the critical parts.
- Understanding complexity and cross-functional work.
- Very strong analytical ability.
- Identifies and builds on financial resource efficiency opportunities.
- Have a good understanding and is up to date with relevant sector/department knowledge.
- Strong financial modelling abilities and data analytics with a focus on automation
- Knowledge of banking products and related financial issues.
- Review and challenge existing / developing financial / statistical models.
- Ability to promote team spirit and culture.

Competencies
- Learning and researching
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Relating and networking
- Adapting and responding to change
- Good communication and presentation skills
- Lateral thinking
- Strong data analytics
- Quantitative model building
- Collaborative
- Self-starter

Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum qualification - Quantitative or finance and accounting degrees eg Applied Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Econometrics.
- Preferred qualification - Honours, Masters, C

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